Bowl barrow 850m north west of Whitefriars Broiler Houses

List Entry Summary

This monument is scheduled under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 as amended as it appears to the Secretary of State to be of national importance. This entry is a copy, the original is held by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Name: Bowl barrow 850m north west of Whitefriars Broiler Houses

List entry Number: 1011689

Location

The monument may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County: Dorset

District: West Dorset

District Type: District Authority

Parish: Winterbourne Abbas

National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.

Grade: Not applicable to this List entry.

Date first scheduled: 31-Oct-1957

Date of most recent amendment: 10-May-1995

Legacy System Information

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Legacy System: RSM

UID: 22928

Asset Groupings

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List entry Description

Summary of Monument

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Reasons for Designation

Bowl barrows, the most numerous form of round barrow, are funerary monuments
dating from the Late Neolithic period to the Late Bronze Age, with most
examples belonging to the period 2400-1500 BC. They were constructed as
earthen or rubble mounds, sometimes ditched, which covered single or multiple
burials. They occur either in isolation or grouped as cemeteries and often
acted as a focus for burials in later periods. Often superficially similar,
although differing widely in size, they exhibit regional variations in form
and a diversity of burial practices. There are over 10,000 surviving bowl
barrows recorded nationally (many more have already been destroyed), occurring
across most of lowland Britain. Often occupying prominent locations, they are
a major historic element in the modern landscape and their considerable
variation of form and longevity as a monument type provide important
information on the diversity of beliefs and social organisations amongst early
prehistoric communities. They are particularly representative of their period
and a substantial proportion of surviving examples are considered worthy of
protection.

The bowl barrow 850m north west of Whitefriars Broiler Houses survives
comparatively well and will contain archaeological and environmental evidence
relating to the monument and the landscape in which it was constructed.

History

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Details

The monument includes a bowl barrow situated on a chalk ridge with views over
a valley to the south and the South Dorset Ridge beyond.
The barrow, which was identified by L V Grinsell in 1959, has a mound composed
of earth, chalk and flint with a maximum diameter of 25m and a maximum height
of c.0.5m. This is surrounded by a ditch from which material was quarried
during the construction of the monument. This is no longer visible at ground
level as it has become infilled over the years, but will survive as a buried
feature c.2m wide.

MAP EXTRACT
The site of the monument is shown on the attached map extract.
It includes a 2 metre boundary around the archaeological features,
considered to be essential for the monument's support and preservation.

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